Dana Andrews did a good job in it. It was a well-produced show with good plots. ("Johnny Dollar" with Bob Bailey is still my favorite radio show.)
Philip Roth wrote a novel called "I Married a Communist," which was a good read. It was set in the 1940s and 50s. Supposedly it was also a veiled attack on his ex-wife Claire Bloom, in the person of the Communist's wife.
“Johnny Dollar” with Bob Bailey is still my favorite radio show.”
I really like Dragnet, and I tell you who really holds up surprisingly well is Jack Benny.
I also like that show that’s sort of like Twilight Zone, just one-off stories, and often odd and Sci-Fi-ish. I CANNOT remember the name, this is going to annoy me!
I think the Johnny Dollar scripts are as good or better than what TV is doing now. Some of the best writers and producers in film and television in the 70’s , 80’s and 90’s came out of postwar radio. People like Gene Roddenberry, Rod Serling and Jack Webb. Gene Roddenberry wrote scripts by night while working as a motorcycle cop for the LAPD, BTW.
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(Veering wildly off topic) Johnny Dollar with Bob Bailey is the best of radio shows — not just my opinion, but as voted by SiriusXM listeners. I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because he seems so human, so modern.